Re: Orbiting Datahavens

[snow <snow@smoke.suba.com>]

On Sat, 17 Aug 1996, Brian C. Lane wrote:
>   With all the recent talk about converted oil-rig DataHavens floating
> around the oceans, fending off pirates, and Low-Orbit satellite
> communications, I had a thought.
>   How about an orbiting DataHaven. No jurisdiction to bother with,
> extremely difficult to get to (except by large governments...). You could
> put together a couple of Linux boxes with a RAID system, some backups and a
> large solar panel and have a very nice, secure DataHaven.
>   Granted, you wouldn't have all the fun of floating around the south
> pacific fending off pirates and navies who are after your data, but it
> would work. Might even be cheaper than outfitting the oil-ring with the
> rate that they are tossing satellites into space.
>   If the HAM radio community can get a satellite into space, why not the
> Cypherpunks/Linux communities?

     It is just as easy to take out a satelite in LOE as it is to sink an
oil rig, plus swapping defective Hard Drives is a real bitch.

Petro, Christopher C.
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snow@smoke.suba.com